The Generals – Lavr Kornilov
I truly enjoyed the series The Generals that Mitchieville’s Minister of War (at the time) Reg was putting up. Here is another one, one you probably only heard bad things about in Marxist Theory as taught you in your Ontario Math class:
General Kornilov now has fans, too, as the youtube selection shows. You can read about the storied history of this general on the wikipedia * . Anyone who can get an intro set to the Farewell of Slavianka has got to be an interesting fellow. And, politically correct, too. The good general is neither a Catholic (haters of a womans right to choose between work and more work) nor a Mormon (haters of the poly-gendereds’ rights to be joined in blasphemous ceremonies on church grounds that they neither support nor maintain). He married out of his ‘race’ (being a Cossack who married an Uzbek), and certainly did his bit in fighting Global Warming by embracing the use of calvary in the armed forces. What a great guy. We need more like him. Maybe he could solve the Caledonia crisis, using his special diplomatic touch.
I think an Ontario high school should be named after him.
December 6th, 2009 at 11:20 am
[...] the Russian Civil War week at the Mitchieville Public Library, here is one of the volunteers in the Kornilov Division * * , a re-enactment unit active here abouts. Everybody likes re-enactments! Vasily here, after a [...]